2018-02-24T21:45:03Ztag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/thread/post/hezekiah-scovil-porter-s-diary-part-15tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/1137/40572018-02-24T21:45:03ZSursumCorda<p>We have photos of the pages, and I will include a sample and/or links to them all in the final post, in which I will put everything together.</p> <p>War is so wasteful. He was by all accounts intelligent, personable, responsible, and should have been headed for a good career had he not been derailed his second year in college. Choate, Yale ... what did John F. Kennedy (who also went to Choate, then Princeton) have that Hezekiah Porter did not? Well, besides money and a family with vast political ambitions, that is. Yet even if he had survived the war, how wasteful to be fiddling with cars, peeling potatoes, slogging through mud, and waiting, waiting, waiting instead of learning.</p>tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/1137/40562018-02-24T21:21:40Zjoyful<p>This entry makes me so sad. &quot;No excitement&quot;. In five months, he would be dead. ):</p> <p>Do you have scanned pictures of the pages? I'd like to see his handwriting. (Just one would be enough.)</p>